On this page you will find a sampling of resources related to Systemic Racism and Economic Factors, broken down into the following sections:
Issues in Economic Oppression: Affordable Housing, Community Disinvestment, Concentrated Poverty, Disposable Workforce, Economic Policy, Exclusionary Lending, Exploitation, Expropriation, Extractive Colonial Economies, Depreciation, Dispossession, Federal Aid, Gentrification, Homeownership, Housing Discrimination, Income Inequality, Low Income Housing, Prison Labor, Promotion Gap, Public Housing, Racial Capitalism, Redlining, Residential Discrimination, Targeted Zoning Laws, Union Busting, Wage Gap, Wage Theft, Wealth Gap, White Flight, Workers' Rights, Working Conditions, Workplace Discrimination
Keywords for Social Justice/Anti-Oppression Searches: Anti-Black, Association Between, Bias, Discrimination, Disparity, Disproportionate, Effect, Gap, High Rate, Impact, Inequity, Inequality, Institutionalized Racism, Oppression, Racial Inequity, Racist, Racism, Unconscious Bias, Violence, White Supremacy
Source: AJ. (2021, February 3). Is Capitalism Anti-Black? YouTube. https://youtu.be/kd3_6RntTfs
Source: Vice. (2016, August 16). Debtors' Prisons: Life Inside America’s For-Profit Justice System. YouTube. https://youtu.be/RIghbrn5yfI
Source: Frontline PBS. (2020, February 14). "You're Just Disposable: Former Amazon Workers Speak Out." YouTube. https://youtu.be/3-KMXng5Cp0
Source: NowThis News. (2020, February 19). How Housing Redlining Contributed to the Racial Wealth Gap and Segregation. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8zeecPN35g
Source: Vice News. (2017, December 7). People Are Making Big Money Kicking Detroit Residents Out Of Their Homes. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHLaWw_PnQY
Source: Vice News. (2020, August 11). How Property Law Is Used to Appropriate Black Land. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls3P_FicO7I
Source:Urban Displacement Project. (2017, November 19). Gentrification Explained. YouTube. https://youtu.be/V0zAvlmzDFc
Source: Associated Press. (2021, May 3). Pandemic workers face another hazard: wage theft. YouTube. https://youtu.be/A__i1I5WvcI
Source: AJ+ (2020, February 7). Why Are All The Black Farmers Vanishing? YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71WZnsqSUoQ
Source: Urban Institute. (2013, March 25). The Racial Wealth Gap in America. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5BvZllI9-U
Source: Vox. (2019, February 18). American segregation, mapped at day and night. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaPQN0aW47I
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Episode:Mehrsa Baradaran on Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
Episode: Residential Segregation & Structural Racism
Episode: Our Tax Code is Racist
Episode: The Thin Line Between Entertainment and Exploitation
Episode: How the Suburbs Were Segregated
Episode: Your Friendly Neighborhood Bank: The Post Office
Episode: The Economy that Slavery Built
Episode: The Rebellion Against Racial Capitalism
A podcast about how and why gentrification happens.
Episode: Data and Racial Capitalism
Raising workers' voices to make sure they are heard in the economic policy debate.
Episode: The Crisis of Care
Murtaza Hussain and Vanessa Bee discuss the rights of domestic workers with organizer Ai-jen Poo.
Episode: Barriers to Employment
